When It’s All Over: 11:59 Arrow 4X18 Review
Life is hard. Sometimes the pain hurts so bad we can't breathe. Sometimes we lose the person we love and we no longer know how to make sense of the world. We lose ourselves. We cannot see our way forward.
It's why we love stories about heroes. They are a reflection of our pain and our joy. We see our tragedy is theirs. We understand the joy in their triumphs. At their core, hero's journeys are intensely human. Both joy and tragedy are required, however. If you lose one, you are only telling half the story.
Superhero stories without loss don't mean very much. There must be a cost. There has to be sacrifice. A hero's journey is about overcoming struggle, pain and loss. A hero pushes forward when most would give up. A hero reaches for the light when there's nothing to see but dark. The only way a person becomes a HERO is by facing tragedy. We can't keep it from them anymore than we can keep it from ourselves. But therein lies the hope. Maybe we can glean a lesson from their story. When there's nothing but dark, maybe we can learn how to reach for the light.
It's why Laurel Lance had to die.
